Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
EDWARD DE BONOYou can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
More Edward de Bono Quotes
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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